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The First Minds December 22, 2018 A. Reber
The long-standing philosophical argument generally known as “hardware independent functionalism” is presented. This position maintains that consciousness is at its heart computational and any artifact that carried out all the causal functions of a mind would become conscious. This position is critiqued and shown to be hopelessly flawed. There is a long discussion on the “other minds” problem...
The Canadian Review of Art Education / Revue canadienne d’éducation artistique December 22, 2018 Pamela Richardson, Susan Walsh
Abstract: In this article, we share how during a time of retreat from our academic careers we engaged in a shared contemplative arts process that included two practices, the first being renga, or linked verse poetry, and the second being Miksang, or contemplative photography. Through our particular collaboration, we sought to co-create a space where healthy habits of mind and open-hearted...
The First Minds December 22, 2018 Arthur S. Reber
Abstract Two strategies are used to review the many efforts to solve (or resolve or dissolve) the Hard Problem. One searches for the neurocorrelates of consciousness, the effort to answer the question: “How does the brain make the mind?” The other looks for the first appearance of true consciousness in phylogenesis. Both approaches are reviewed and found wanting. The reason is they all begin...
Pro-Fil December 21, 2018 Michaela Petrufová Joppová
Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy of mind stirs up the disputes about the nature of body-mind relations with its rigorous and naturalistic monism. The unity of body and mind is consequential of his metaphysics of the substance, but the concept of the unity of the mind and its idea rightfully confuses Spinoza’s commentators. Many have been tempted to interpret this as a possible account of...
Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences December 20, 2018 Историко-философский Экскурс, Зарубежная Философия, Современный Взгляд et al.
The article examines the change of theoretical framework in analytic philosophy of mind. It is well known fact that nowadays philosophical problems of mind are frequently seen as incredibly difficult. It is noteworthy that the first programs of analytical philosophy of mind (that is, logical positivism and philosophy of ordinary language) were skeptical about difficulty of that realm of...
MHRA working papers in the humanities December 20, 2018 V. Taddei
The modernist age in Europe (1890s-1930s) is often regarded as a time of spiritual crisis, yet at the outset of the twentieth century religious sentiment enjoyed a renewed attention fostered by contemporary science. William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience (1901–02) proposed a study of religious feeling in a modern psychological perspective that became widely known in England and...
Routledge eBooks December 17, 2018 Ken W. Brown 1 citation
Helen Keller&s;s discovery of word-meaning plausibly depicts the sudden emergence of a human consciousness. Helen&s;s recollections of overt manifestations of emotion in a vacuum of emotional experience cast in high-profile the way each new name she learned brought objects to life in her mind. Helen Keller&s;s experience of language-acquisition also symbolises the radical distinction Vygotsky...
Adaptive Behavior December 13, 2018 Maria Clara Garavito, Jorge Dávila-gonzález 1 citation
How is it possible, even as a literary conceit, to feel one’s free will beating in one’s blood? The immediacy and spontaneity with which this idea is posited in a literary context contrasts with the subtle and painstaking work through which one may understand how bodily feelings, in a given weather and context, may tell us something about ourselves and our possibilities for action in a given...
Journal of Nursing & Healthcare December 6, 2018
In mental health care, the body takes an undeserved, modest place. It is precisely the body that you can use you to test the beliefs of patients on functionality. Dysfunctional beliefs lead to dysfunctional emotions and corresponding response representations in the body. This is entirely in line with the therapeutic elaboration of Lang’s emotion theory. That is, linking existing stimulus...
Neuroreport December 5, 2018 Diego B G Rodrigues, Shirley S Lacerda, Joana B Balardin et al.
Among several cognitive advantages, meditation is thought to enhance practitioners' capacity for sustained attention. In the present study, we explored this question by testing meditation practitioners (meditators) and nonpractitioners (nonmeditators) on a task that requires sustained attention, the Stroop Word-Color Task (SWCT), while using functional MRI. Participants were all right-handed...